On 2/21/19 9:30 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:22:39AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
PS This gives me dejavu. A while ago when people started demanding to have
google chrome browser installed on their workstations I had hard time to get
rid of google's cron jobs that were writing where only root should - without
explicit permission to do so. Dough. Somebody's software thinks it is
smarter than everyone who uses it... "Machine learning" all the way ;-)
Since I work at a university that uses Google Apps, we're asked to
provide Google Chrome for all our users, but since the package is not
very enterprise ready, I have to make several adjustments.
One thing I do is put an 'exit 0' in /etc/default/google-chrome. This
effectively stops most of the evil that the RPM does in its
postscripts. (As a reminder, this is what the latest RPM does,
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/MS~7Fkr5AWYo7SAWAl8t6A )
I also manage private repos (with pulp) of the Google Chrome repos, in
case I need to go back to a previous version, so having it overwrite
my repositories is actually damaging.
I also disable 'at' and the atd service on our workstations, and this
RPM turns atd back on and schedules an at job to run the
/etc/cron.daily/google-chrome script.
It's an absurd RPM and Google should be ashamed of it.
Thanks for your input, very instructive!
Google is not ashamed of what it is doing. As one clever man said over
decade ago: you don't need to recruit spies anymore, just roll out
"free" services. And we all know, these "intelligence" agencies were
never ashamed of whatever they have done.
But as another clever man said: the people do deserve the government
they have.
Valeri
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University of Chicago
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